Re-Visioning Family Therapy: Race, Culture, and Gender in Clinical Practice - Hardcover

"A timely and comprehensive source, this anthology provides a cultural lens for contextualizing reality. Amassing a stellar list of contributors, the book expands our views of families and establishes therapy as a more inclusive endeavor. Re-Visioning Family Therapy is an essential resource for every practitioner working with multicultural populations." --Lillian Comas-Diaz, PhD, Director, Transcultural Mental Health Institute; Editor-in-chief, Cultural Diversity and Mental Health "With her visionary energy, Monica McGoldrick brings us a rare and satisfying book that extends the meaning of family therapy, expands the consciousness of the therapist, and insists that the reader be deeply changed in some fundamental way. To pay careful attention to the compelling insights in this volume--and I suggest you do--is to take a large evolutionary leap forward." --Harriet Lerner, PhD, author of The Dance of Anger "This book delivers more than a new vision of family therapy. The contributors give us new practices, new theories, and new theories of practice which have revolutionary implications for all psychotherapies and thus for all clients who share their lives, cultures, and problems with us. This paradigm-shifting volume documents and illuminates how culture is not only a label for the 'other, ' but a coat of many colors which gives meaning, feeling, and value to all our lives, and which, once we take the measure of its profundity, will explode our common-sense notions of identity, psyche, and psychotherapy." --Virginia Goldner, PhD, Senior Faculty, Ackerman Institute for the Family ., ."offers compelling perspectives on society's most divisive issues and enhances the cultural competence of new and experienced therapists alike in working with families....contributors offer concrete suggestions for improving family therapy training and developing services that minority families may experience as more relevant to their lives....recommended for family therapy students, psychotherapy, social work, and counseling." --"Wisconsin Bookwatch" "Once again Monica McGoldrick succeeds in her efforts to lead us forward in our thinking about families and family therapy with written words that stretch even the most culturally aware and sensitive therapists. She has conscientiously brought the work of several distinguished authors together to have us broaden and 're-view' our thinking and practice with families through a cultural lens....I cannot think of a clinician, supervisor, educator, researcher, student, or therapist-in-training who would not find this volume useful in their practice of family therapy. Unlike other volumes in this area there was an energizing quality in the contents of this book which activated me to think and act, rather than just passively digest information about culturally diverse families." --"Journal of Family Psychotherapy" "On the whole, "Re-Visioning Family Therapy" is carefully edited, the chapters well written, and the messages thoughtful and thought provoking....I recommend it as reading for all mental health professionals." --"Psychiatric Services" .,."offers compelling perspectives on society's most divisive issues and enhances the cultural competence of new and experienced therapists alike in working with families....contributors offer concrete suggestions for improving family therapy training and developing services that minority families may experience as more relevant to their lives....recommended for family therapy students, psychotherapy, social work, and counseling." --"Wisconsin Bookwatch" "Once again Monica McGoldrick succeeds in her efforts to lead us forward in our thinking about families and family therapy with written words that stretch even the most culturally aware and sensitive therapists. She has conscientiously brought the work of several distinguished authors together to have us broaden and 're-view' our thinking and practice with families through a cultural lens....I cannot think of a clinician, supervisor, educator, researcher, student, or therapist-in-training who would not find this volume useful in their practice of family therapy. Unlike other volumes in this area there was an energizing quality in the contents of this book which activated me to think and act, rather than just passively digest information about culturally diverse families." --"Journal of Family Psychotherapy" "On the whole, "Re-Visioning Family Therapy" is carefully edited, the chapters well written, and the messages thoughtful and thought provoking....I recommend it as reading for all mental health professionals." --"Psychiatric Services" ..."offers compelling perspectives on society's most divisive issues and enhances the cultural competence of new and experienced therapists alike in working with families....contributors offer concrete suggestions for improving family therapy training and developing services that minority families may experience as more relevant to their lives....recommended for family therapy students, psychotherapy, social work, and counseling." --"Wisconsin Bookwatch" "Once again Monica McGoldrick succeeds in her efforts to lead us forward in our thinking about families and family therapy with written words that stretch even the most culturally aware and sensitive therapists. She has conscientiously brought the work of several distinguished authors together to have us broaden and 're-view' our thinking and practice with families through a cultural lens....I cannot think of a clinician, supervisor, educator, researcher, student, or therapist-in-training who would not find this volume useful in their practice of family therapy. Unlike other volumes in this area there was an energizing quality in the contents of this book which activated me to think and act, rather than just passively digest information about culturally diverse families." --"Journal of Family Psychotherapy" "On the whole, "Re-Visioning Family Therapy" is carefully edited, the chapters well written, and the messages thoughtful and thought provoking....I recommend it as reading for all mental health professionals." --"Psychiatric Services"

Exploring the ways that clients' lives, and family therapy itself, are constrained by larger forces of racial, cultural, sexual, and class-based inequality, this groundbreaking volume expands the boundaries of the field and works toward truly inclusive clinical practice. Editor Monica McGoldrick - whose earlier Ethnicity and Family Therapy provides in-depth portraits of the family systems of more than 40 ethnic groups--here takes up vital cultural issues that cut across all ethnicities. Integrating theoretical exposition, case vignettes, and evocative autobiographical narratives, contributors offer concrete suggestions for improving family therapy training and developing services that minority families may experience as more relevant to their lives.